Workplace Wellness Training Programs

Wellness Training Programs

EAP Assist facilitates a range of free online evidence-based workplace mental health & wellbeing training programs to support employers & employees to understand mental health in the workplace & to build positive & psychologically safe environments. Select your training program from the following:

Managing Mental Health Risks at Work

This training module allows employees and managers to assess common workplace scenarios that can impact mental health of employees. The module gives the user options for exploring different actions and provides valuable insights for employees and managers on the best approaches and likely outcomes.

Approaching an Employee you’re Concerned About

This resource assists managers address a common workplace scenario. Using a ‘choose a pathway’ approach, managers are challenged to help an employee dealing with a mental health condition to the benefit of the employee and the business.

Perspectives: Returning to Work

This resource presents a case study of an employee who has depression and is returning after a period of absence from work. It takes a look at the situation from the perspectives of five different people with different roles in the workplace.

Having a Conversation Training Program

This resource presents dramatized examples, featuring staff from both blue-collar and white-collar workplaces, demonstrating how to talk to a staff member who may be experiencing a mental health condition.

Workplace Mental Health Awareness

This resource takes a look at common myths and misconceptions about depression and anxiety by providing facts, tools and personal experience videos.

Managing Employees

Good employee management is linked to lower staff turnover, higher productivity and business success. Effective managers know how to motivate and communicate with their employees. They also understand their legal obligations and promptly deal with any problems that arise in the workplace. This course will help you develop your management skills in each of these key areas, so you can build a high performing team and help your business achieve its goals.

Diversity & Discrimination

A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for business. It can help you to enhance productivity, reduce turnover and save money. It also minimises the risk of discrimination occurring. This course will show you how to make your business a place where differences such as age, gender and race are genuinely valued. It outlines your legal obligations to prevent discrimination and provides advice on how to appropriately handle complaints if they do arise.

Workplace Flexibility

Workplace flexibility means employers and employees making arrangements that suit them. This helps employees maintain their work/life balance and can improve business productivity and efficiency. This course will help you to understand why flexible working arrangements can be good for your business. It outlines your legal obligations and shows you how to negotiate and manage flexibility so that it works for you and your employees.

Difficult Conversations in the Workplace – Managers Course

Most people enjoy good relationships at work. However, even in the best workplace, disagreements can occur. When this happens it’s best to address the issue early and talk about it with your staff. This course will help to prepare you for a difficult conversation in the workplace and provide advice on how to handle the conversation well.

Mental Health Skills Training

The Mental Health Skills Training Program will help you learn about common mental health conditions, how to boost your resilience at work and what supports are available if you need them. You will also gain skills to have effective conversations about mental health & learn about people’s rights and responsibilities when telling their employer about mental health issues. By taking part in this training, you will get access to evidence-based tools, resources & apps to help your wellbeing and build a mentally healthier workplace. This training is for everyone in the workplace.

Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

Learn how to incorporate resilience interventions into your personal and professional life. In this course, you are exposed to the foundational research in resilience, including protective factors such as mental agility and optimism. Several types of resilience interventions are explored including cognitive strategies; strategies to manage anxiety and increase positive emotions such as gratitude; and a critical relationship enhancement skill. Throughout the course, you will hear examples of individuals using resilience skills in their personal and professional lives. The course will require 15 hours to complete over 4 weeks.

Psychological First Aid

Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a free online education course that takes about 8-10 hours to complete, ideally over a span of a few weeks. The course provides first responders who are not trained as counsellors with knowledge and training to assist those who have experienced traumatic events. The sequential steps covered in the course: R — “Rapport and Reflective Listening”; A — “Assessment/Listening to the Story”; P — “Psychological Triage/Prioritization”; I — “Intervention Tactics to Stabilize and Mitigate Acute Distress” & D — “Disposition and Facilitating Access to Continued Care”. RAPID PFA not only offers a useful, simple framework for providing support and guidance, but also sets markers for when referrals to professional mental health care may be needed. The course is for those who want to provide initial support and guidance to targeted individuals, it provides a straightforward, evidence-based approach for doing so, while helping to understand appropriate boundaries between lay assistance and professional mental health care.

Mental Health in the Workplace Toolbox

This Mental health in the workplace toolbox training package is all about giving individuals and businesses free tools and resources to help them take action around mental health in the workplace. It’s also about supporting Australian businesses to create more mentally healthy workplaces. The training aims to provide participants with information about mental health, with a focus on anxiety and depression, as these are the most common mental health conditions. The training can be delivered as a workshop by nominated professionals who are not required to have any prior knowledge, expertise or understanding of mental health conditions.

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